This photo was taken on the senior nursing trip to the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East. One of our many adventures involved taking a morning trip to a wadi, or dry riverbed. We crossed the boarder into Oman and descended down the rocks...

Walking along the coast of the Indian Ocean in Mombasa, men come at you from every direction asking “Snorkel?” “Scuba?” “Ride my boat?” or “Want to buy a hand carved key chain?” Many will grab your attention by shouting “Mzungu! Mzungu!” “White...

This photo was taken on the mountainous area around the Pichincha Volcano. This volcano sits overlooking the city of Quito. This was the last day spent in Ecuador, and it was a beautiful way to end such an amazing trip.

This photograph illustrates circumstances that most of us are all too familiar with. Whether it is a simple family road trip or a bumpy ride up a volcanic mountain in the Galapagos Islands, a bump in the road, almost always presents itself. These...

This photo was taken after a two-hour trip up to the “Big Buddah” on Lantau Island. It is the largest bronze sitting Buddah in the world, only it was so foggy that day, that we could only see the outline of his raised hand! The statues around...

This is my friend, Kate Moss, on Bald Rock on the border of New South Wales and Queensland. A Japanese tourist had seen her do a handstand and asked his guide if he could ask her to pose for a picture. My class took a five-day class field trip...

Pictures like this one remind me of all the beautiful children I have met in Haiti and I often wonder about them: What is likje doing right now? Is Madeline healthy? Is Michlange in school? This is three-year-old Joselin -I met her outside of a...

After hiking for most of the day and still having a ways to go before my friends and I could rest we stumbled upon a shrine tucked away in the mountains. Low on motivation and beginning to regret our decision to go hiking on one of the few free...

During our time in the Wadi Rum desert we were able to stay overnight and ride back on camels for several hours the next morning. It was an incredible experience riding in one of the most surreal places on earth, as the Wadi Rum desert is...

On a weekend trip to Siwa we had the opportunity to be driven in jeeps through the expansive rolling desert dunes. This man, “Tosh-Tosh” (meaning “Crazy” in Arabic) was our driver. He led our small group in a chorus of songs, “Ana mapsuta, ana...

In Thailand, Buddhism and culture are one in the same. Buddhist symbols, temples, monks, and images are overwhelmingly present in everyday life. Images of the Buddha were originally created as an object of worship and in order to spread the...

Arniston is a small fishing community in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Here, a small restaurant rests on the edge of the rough ocean water providing the traditional food of South Africa for the fishermen and visitors in the area. Before my...

This picture was taken at an orphanage in Chihuahua, Mexico, during a spring break missions trip last year. I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to go there and play with the children, and also do some work. This child's name is Juyo, but...

I was on a train traveling between the main center of Athens and one of its suburbs. In order to get to the university, I took an hour-long trip, twice a day, four days a week. Each time I encountered new strangers with different destinations. Some...

My UMAIE group had decided early in our trip that we wanted to take a camel safari while in Egypt. We learned that the best place to do so would be not near Cairo, but in Luxor, a smaller city further south, where we would pass through rural...